We tend to sentimentalize the Christmas ... Jesus in the manger, but we must also be prayerfully sober about how difficult that first Christmas was and about the heroic virtue required of Mary and ...

In the New Testament, the Gospels tell the story of Jesus’ birth—the first Christmas ... world has embraced the faithful story of Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus for centuries.

The Holy Family who needed to hide Another legend of the Christmas spider sees Mary and Joseph fleeing Egypt with an infant Jesus, trying to outrun King Herod’s soldiers. “Frightened ...

A new Biblical epic coming to Netflix this Christmas ... Ido Tako as Joseph, Jesus’ father. The coming-of-age tale retells the world-famous Biblical story through the eyes of Mary, mother ...

Christmas was inspired by Bethlehem. People shouldn’t ignore what’s happening here,” he said. “If Jesus was born today, instead of 2,000 years ago, neither Mary nor Joseph could have ...

His book Jesus and the Powers ... one with the heavy accent—the Christmas story has one villain in particular. Not Joseph, who didn’t believe Mary’s tale until an angel came to him in ...

The image of baby Jesus in the ... lawns and beneath our Christmas trees. Stores sell plastic donkeys and wooden mangers. People collect hand-carved images of Mary, Joseph, and the newborn child.

At his shop, a small group of artisans are hard at work, shaping statues of Mary and the infant Jesus and stamping out Christmas tree ... inspired by television images of children being pulled ...